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TIL there are more payday loan stores in the US than there are Starbucks or McDonald’s

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6EoeX TIL Oscar-nominated 'A Star Is Born' cinematographer Matthew Libatique, ASC was arrested at the 2018 Camerimage Festival in Poland for a drunken assault
xVp1b TIL that on the night that John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln, his co-conspirator was supposed to assassinate Vice President Andrew Johnson. The co-conspirator lost his nerve and got drunk instead
jNDkn TIL Scientists made light travel at 17 meters per second by having light travel through a gas at nearly zero kelvin.
rNMYW TIL that Roman ladies would pay to have the sweat and muck of Gladiator's bodies scraped off, so that they could use it as a moisturiser.
M7PnW TIL that in 1966, James Meredith, the first black man to be integrated into The University of Mississippi, organized a one man march to encourage African Americans to vote. Shortly into his march, he was shot in the neck, head, and back. Mr. Meredith is still alive.